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  Sunday, August 22, 2004

Easy Linking

Regular readers of this blog have probably noticed that when I mention a book or movie, I like to link to the item in question as a service to my readers. Up to now, that has taken a bit of extra effort, opening up another browser, searching for the item in question, and then cutting and pasting the URL into the post I was working on. But no more. Now there is a new tool to make inline linking easier.

The Google Blogoscoped blog has a number of wonderful search tools, such as the EgoBot that I'm fond of quoting, and the FindForward interface that searches the web in innovative ways.

Philipp Lenssen, the genius behind these web sites, has added a new feature at my request, as described here and in this post. It lets you put a simple link in your post that takes the drudgery out of making links in your writing. Now, when you go to write about the latest movie you can easily make it link so your readers can find out more about it (or order it) without a lot of hoohaw.

He has three different searches: movies, books and music. You substitute dashes for spaces, and put your search terms at the end of the URL, like so:
<a href="http://findforward.com/music/touch-and-go">Touch and Go</a>


Blog Tag: Links

5 Comments:

At 8/23/2004 8:22 AM, Blogger SidDawgone said...

I love the way you link stuff to your writings, but I thought you said 'easy'! I'll just leave the hi-tech stuff to you muni-types! Thanks for visiting, Dave!

Oh, and 5150? It's the term for clinically and legally crazy enough to be picked up and held against your will for 72 hours!!

See ya 'round the funny farm! Allison

 
At 8/23/2004 12:48 PM, Blogger dkgoodman said...

>> Oh, and 5150? It's the term for clinically and legally crazy enough to be picked up and held against your will for 72 hours!!

And you know this how? :)

 
At 8/23/2004 3:59 PM, Blogger magz said...

psssst, hey dave! i know my sis well, and she knows whereof she speaks! once more, and she'll be 50-49-ed for her real 72!

 
At 8/23/2004 9:34 PM, Blogger SidDawgone said...

only when the voices tell me it's safe

 
At 8/25/2004 6:51 PM, Blogger Dale said...

Yeah, I agree with Allison. Love the links, Dave. Love 'em. But HTML is not something I'll ever understand. Carry on, my man. You post a mean blog!

5150, eh? So now I know.

 

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